Ndaulo yekuti Ng'umba ye Ndzimu imusiwe
1 Mu gole le bubili la Mambo Dariyasi, mu zhuba le kutanga le mwedzi we butathatu, dama la Yahwe lakazha nge nlebesambeli Hagayi kuna Zerubhabeli nkololo wa Shealitiyele mbusi we Juda ne kuna Joshuwa nkololo wa Jehozadaki mpirisiti nkulu liti,
2 “Tjinoleba Yahwe Masimbawose etji, ‘Bathu ibaba banoti, “Tjibaka atjithu tjikazha tjekuti ng'umba ya Yahwe imusiwe.” ’ ”
3 Ipapo dama la Yahwe likazha nge nlebesambeli Hagayi liti, 4 “Apa itjetji tjibaka tjekuti imwi mube muli gele mu ng'umba dzenyu dzakabakwa zwakanaka, koga ng'umba ya Yahwe ili dongo kene?
5 “Ndizo ngwenu tjinoleba Yahwe Masimbawose etji, ‘Yelani njele sekwa munotjila. 6 Makadzwala kuli kunjinji koga mukavuna kushomanana, moja koga amutoguta, mong'wa koga amutogutshika. Mofuka koga amutodziyigwa. Moamutjila mibhayilo mulonga mu hwomo dzina mabuli.’
7 “Tjinoleba Yahwe Masimbawose etji, ‘Yelani njele sekwa munotjila. 8 Tathani matombo mubuye ne mapango mubake ng'umba iyeyi, kuti ndiishathile ndikudziwe muili.’ ”
Koleba Yahwe.9 “Makalindila kuwana kuli kunjinji, koga bonani, kwakabuya kuli kushomanana, tjamakabuza kanyi ndakatjiwulusa. Ngotini?”
Koleba Yahwe Masimbawose.“Ngekwe ng'umba yangu igele zwayo ili dongo, koga mmwe ne mmwe wenyu ebaka ng'umba iye. 10 Ndizo kudzimu kwakadziba khawa yako kuti isiwe ne shango yakadziba zwidzwalo zwayo ngekwenyu. 11 Ndakazhisa bhamba mu minda ne mu matombo, mu mathunde ne mu mizhambi akuna nkumbi ntshwa, akuna mafuta ne tjimwe ne tjimwe tjinobhuda mu mavu, bhamba limu bathu ne mu phuka ne muna zose zwabanothama.”
Bathu banohwa ndaulo ya Yahwe
12 Ipapo Zerubhabeli nkololo wa Shealitiyele na Joshuwa nkololo wa Jehozadaki mpirisiti nkulu ne malimbelimbe wose e bathu bakahwa hwi la Yahwe Ndzimu wabo ne ndayidzo ye nlebesambeli Hagayi ngoti Yahwe Ndzimu wabo wakabe wantuma, ngono bathu bakatja Yahwe. 13 Ipapo Hagayi ntumwa wa Yahwe kapa bathu ndayidzo ya Yahwe inoti, “Imi ndinamwi.”
Koleba Yahwe.14 Ngono Yahwe bakazunguza meya ya Zerubhabeli nkololo wa Shealitiyele mbusi we Juda ne meya ya Joshuwa nkololo wa Jehozadaki, mpirisiti nkulu ne meya ye malimbelimbe wose e bathu. Ngono bakazha bakamusa ng'umba ya Yahwe Ndzimu wabo, 15 mu zhuba le bumakumi mabili ana manna (24) mu mwedzi we butathatu mu gole le bubili la Mambo Dariyasi.
1 In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, saying, 2 Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the LORD’s house should be built. 3 Then came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying, 4 Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste? 5 Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways. 6 Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.
7 ¶ Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways. 8 Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith the LORD. 9 Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house. 10 Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit. 11 And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands.
12 ¶ Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the LORD their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as the LORD their God had sent him, and the people did fear before the LORD. 13 Then spake Haggai the LORD’s messenger in the LORD’s message unto the people, saying, I am with you, saith the LORD. 14 And the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and did work in the house of the LORD of hosts, their God, 15 In the four and twentieth day of the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.